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PAGE SIX THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISBURG, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943 JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST Protected by The George Matthew Adams Service BABY BOOK POLITICAL GLEANINGS By CHARLES G. MILLER New York CAVALCADE By LOUIS SOBOL Bud, her brother's name, and Established February IS. 1917 Published every evening- except Sunday THE PATRIOT COMPANY, 11 North Market Square. Harrisburg.

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BERGHAUS. JR Managing Editor Found her baby book today Where it had been tucked away. that Made my heart go pit-a-pat In her mother's hand, 'twas told 'THE high cost of printing legisla- tive matter is being slowly whittled down, through enactment of a new law and the withholding of bills whose purpose is taken care of in omnibus appropriation measures. So far, however, nobody has been able Down my cheek some water What she weighed at seven months rolled old. Think it must nave been my Address communications to THE EVENING NEWS Editorial.

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Entered as second class matter at Harrisburg P. O. Under the Act of March S. 1870 cold! to figure out a plan that would shut There were pictures I'd forgot Taken of her in her cot. And an outline mother drew Book just filled with picture shots.

off long-winded orators who, because of possible political effect or because of the pleasure of hearing their own Hers and other little tots, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943 And eome four -leaf clovers voices, talk on many subjects which they have but a superficial Of her little christening shoe. Yesterday a child was she! Now she soon will married be. Year and day and hour are shown When she took a step alone. knowledge. Their lengthy argu browned Which a dear old lady found, Sent to mother, and were stuck In her baby book for luck.

ments seldom have any effect on the final vote, but they add thousands TREAT THE HOSPITALS ALIKE! GOVERNOR MARTIN, in reply to an inquiry, from the mayor of Nanticoke who opposes the proposal to return State-owned medical find surgical hospitals to the financial control of the communities in which they are located, declared Next some lines her mother wrote of words to. the official record and Ten months old or very near Saw the first small tooth appear. On another page I read: these are printed at a cost that Which perhaps I shouldn't quote not trifling. Last line "Nmeteen-Forty-Three Bud, the first word Janet said." The bill providing a or Janet soon will married be!" King Features Syndicate. Inc.

MEW YORK, April 6. A little A o' this, a little o' that! One of the high ranking officers of the French battleship, Richelieu, made a significant statement during an impromptu talk at a special dinner of the warship's officsers at 21 Club. He said: "How silly to doubt our love and admiration for America and what America means and stands for! We would not have come here in the first place if that were the case. We had offers much better offers elsewhere!" HEN former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies expressed doubt that a picture could be made of his "Mission to Moscow," Jack Warner had him meet Mike Cur-tiz, who was to direct.

Curtiz is everything in mal-a-prop that Goldwyn is reputed to be. He brushed aside Davies' objections. "Xook," he said, "here is the way it wili go. We will open with a protocol under your arm Davies looked startled. Curtiz continued.

"Then you will take out of the protocol some Jack Warner interrupted. "Listen, Mike," he said, "you can't open or close a protocol. A protocol is a diplomatic record or it is a sort of court etiquette or Curtiz snapped: "To he did not look for such action this year, but he made it very clear he has not receded from the stand he took, in his budget "cost of living" increase in the pay of public school teachers, ranging from $100 to $300 a year for two years, is supposed to be bipartisan message, in favor of their ultimate return. These hospitals are located in Nanticoke and nine other or nonpolitical. It stirred up more politics in the House than any other communities in the anthracite mining region and the Governor piece of legislation introduced this reiterated that he believes it will be necessary to place year.

The fight over amendments lasted three hours and the debate sections of the State on a uniform basis with regard to financia holds the session's long distance rec ord. responsibility for such institutions. This seems like a perfectly fair proposal. Certainly a IEUTENANT-GOVERNOR BELL and Speaker Fiss, particularly the communities should be treated alike in distribution of State latter, would like to find some way to end futile talk on the floors of funds for hospital support. Hospitals not included in the ten that are State-owned, receive State aid in proportion to the their respective halls.

In a demo cratic form of government, though MRS. RUMPEL'S ROOMING HOUSE amount of free service they render, not exceeding 60 per cent there is no way to put the clampi "Hey, there, Mister Jones, stop firing your cigaret butts and matches down on our sidewalk throw them a little to the side." on such talk, unless more or less and provide the rest of the costs of operation from local sources including the annual Community Chest campaigns. In this drastic measures are taken. Moving of the previous questio blazes with etiquette. I am making this masterpiece for the masses!" category, for instance, are the Harrisburg Hospital and the Polyclinic Hospital, of this city.

Why should they, and scores often ends debate, but so far this session the motion has not been made. Rattling ink well covers and THE ONCE OVER To the R. A. F. By H.

I. PHILLIPS Released by The Associated Newspapers A symbol of the human soul A star that pierced the frightful night A distant flame when all was dark To give the lie to "might makes right." A pi-elude to the certain dawn A glow in back of misty skies A portent- in the midst of death A whisper in the tomb, "Arise!" A mark of hope against despair A stout plank in the mould and rot The human spirit at its best A voice that said again, "Fear not!" 1 A birth within a house of death A gleaming sword in farflung strife A thing of miracles and faith "The resurrection and the life!" A force that "never had a chance," "Consigned to doom before the start" And yet came through to victory, To triumph for the human heart. A group outnumbered, whipped and scorned A David transferred to the air An underdog through dismal years A fighter foreign to despair. A head all bloody but unbowed A figure scourged and crucified, A journey on Golgotha's road And raw red courage undenied. A gallant knight in armor thin A beacon light that never fades A symbol of the common man A spirit from the old Crusades.

A flaming tribute to a cause, A force that stirs the dullest clod The valiant, mighty RAF, For which a reeling world thanks God! WASHINGTON SLANT OF DAVID LAWRENCE Later he sent a note of apology to Davies. "I was thinking," ha of other institutions throughout Pennsylvania, be penalized in banging desks have been tried by some members but that only Irri comparison with the ten State-owned establishments? WASHINGTON, April 6. Some- tates some of the talkers and the power and place can be commend able, but it also can breed an in explained, "of reticule." JUDWIG BEMELMANS Is completing a serious novel its title: "In the Wilderness, Build Me a times out of a controversy Speaker puts an end to the noise The Legislature will do well to give due consideration to the Governor's recommendation that it make a careful study anyway. enveloped in an atmosphere of contest comes a ray of sunshine SUPPORTERS of the teachers' bill toleTance and an indifference to the complaints of the people. Too many bureaus seek more power than they possess and too many with a view to eliminating sectional favoritism from this do not believe that the proposed increases are adequate, but their situation.

Whatever one may think of the merits of the dispute over whether the anti-inflation law of October Nest" Deals with wealthy refugees in Manhattan Mrs. Vincent Astor i3 ailing Peter Arno is recovering after his emer officials seek more authority than thought is that if they boost the ante further it will only lead to they are capable of exercising ef last did or did not permit farm gency tilt with the surgeon's knife LEND-LEASE MEAT trouble in the future. The mini fectively. subsidies to be included in com When Jack Haley was taken mum pay for teachers is $100 a year puting so-called parity prices HPHERE is a growing feeling that the eating public is entitled ill an hour before the matinee cur for eight and one-half months work tain was scheduled to rise for while State employes receive no less there was in President Roosevelt's veto message a passage that is to a full, fair and impartial statement, supported with But these excrescences would not do much damage to the public interest and they could be confined to a narrow area of injury were it not for the tendency every now than $1120 the first year and $1200 figures, from a source in which the public has confidence, about worth reading again: the second on a twelve-month basis "Show Time," George Jes3el, in desperation, called the Lambs Club in an attempt to get some one to fill in. He was told Smith and "I have referred to the legisla Few legislators are fooling them the causes of the recent breakdown in meat distribution.

Most explanations thus far have left the harassed housewife feeling tive history only because of some selves or anybody else when they and then on the part of public officials to hide mistakes. The theory that mistakes must not be talk of the temporary increase in of the criticisms of my action. I know that some members of the that they really were alibis. teachers' pay as a bonus. They know that once there is an increase in the salary rate subsequent Legislatures conceded or error acknowledged is Congress differ with my interpre About the only excuses advanced are that Lend-Lease plus deep-seated in the political mind Dale were there so they came over and with less than five min-utes rehearsal Jessel appeared in the' Doctor Kronkheit skit as the office boy.

"It was nothing, really nothing," explained Jessel. "I tation of the law. I credit them with sincerity. I ask that they will have to do as well or better. needs of the armed forces account for the shortage.

Now Lend LISTEN, WORLD! By ELSIE ROBINSON Copyrighted. 1943, by King Feature. Syndicate, In It would be refreshing if the trend could be reversed if as fast as Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius knocks out the first credit me with equal sincerity." A FEW legislators, including those who took up the most space on mistakes are made there was with figures and casts doubt upon the second. the printed page, knowing this, ar THAT brief bit of common sense doctrine could be taken whole-hearted readiness to amend HOW TO CURE DAY-DREAMING There's the weakly little fellow who knew the part perfectly I played it 31 years ago with them" As She wonders how srie can cure a The first two months of this year, reports Stettinius, ship or eliminate the action taken.

But, gued at length that the $26,000,000 aggregate boost in teachers' pay was spends his life day-dreaming be to heart by controversialists, the lifelong habit of day-dreaming. Yes, ments on Lend-Lease took only 10 pounds out of every 1000 he worships the school bully, unfortunately, this doesn't happen often and those who are the vic its a real letter from a real person wholly inadequate. One orator took criticisms and differences of opin extra precaution Jessel looked around in the audience to pluck out some one who might lend a up much of the House's time to ex of our beef, and even this was five times the rate in 1942, at the ion which are such a necessary And the smart aleck who continually shows off because he's afraid some tims of injustices carry away from but I'm not giving the address for, chances are, the shot will fit your foot quite as well as it does N. part of the workings of democracy plain why the bonus should be much more and his amendments increased end of which the best cuts were almost unobtainable by civilians Washington deep-seated antagon fillip to the emergency performance. He located the man wanted down front, urged him to one might discover his secret cow ardice or stupidity.

And the sensi isms that sometimes amount to Every since she was a type. N. B. the extra pay to a total of $68,000, would be far more effective in getting the end result constructive change than is the case today. 000.

Several other amendments, also actual hatreds. has been a day-dreamer. Why? Doesn't know. Last year Australia and New Zealand supplied our troops with more beef than we turned over to Lend-Lease that is, they wiped Lend-Lease off the books as an alibi for shortage, come on stage, whispered into his DAYS like these when gor- defeated, added a few additional mil lions to that top. tive youngster who lives in a dream world because he hates his mediocre environment.

And the egoist who longs for a spotlight on stage, radio The tendency to attribute a mo ear and the man spoke his line I'm considered normal enough." tive to one who disagrees, the in "Please sing that one about you ernmental action can be harsh, especially as regulatory measures says she. "I did well in school and have a good office position now. I and also cared for part of the excess demand created by the NOW that Governor Martin has said the $26,000,000 will have to clination to meet criticism con- or newspaper column, as Miss N. fact that soldiers need more meat than civilians. coes, in compensation for some imag tantly by asking what is the mother's eyes," said Sir Cedria Hardwicke.

NOT generally known is that -ll T-1 i.j am ambitious and long, above everything else, to be a journalist. In fact, most of my day dreams center affect the economic life of individuals and businesses and groups the necessity for a broad perspec be cut somewhat the argument will be reopened with vigor. The bill will ined lacK in her life. Which, take it from me, lady, is the last place In no category now short did Lend-Lease take very much. Less than one pound of pork out of every 10 and this was motive of the critic this is one of the most disheartening aspects of present-day government.

Too many soon come up before the Senate for about my career as a writer, tive is even more apparent. Hence, on earth for a day-dreamer. The liuiuiany ouiiiisun coiiaooratea with Eugenie Leontovich on th action and if the Senate makes re 'I have read many of your articles if the controverialists could start ductions there will be another fight one talent, above all others, which a journalist needs, is that of finding which tell what a menace dav people in posts of responsibility think of government as a personal in the House when the Senate amend ana lacing r-e-a-l-l-t-y. dreaming can be but I never really believed them until now. Lately I at least by crediting the other fellow with sincerity, much light and less heat could be generated.

This ments are sent back for concurrence. stage success "Dark Eyes." The company for which he works, 20th Century-Fox financed it. But the company which bought it paying a by far the heaviest burden. One pound of lamb and mutton out of every 25; the equivalent in butter, cheese, dry and evaporated milk of 34 quarts of milk out of every 1000; one pound of lard and vegetable fat out of eight; five cans of instead of an impersonal matter, Why's day-dreaming? That's why? The Governor's attitude is that the we are poisoned by envy began to see that this habit is a real obstacle in my life. It has such a teachers In the lower salary brack jealousy, imaginary injustice, a fear They look upon criticisms as aimed at them personally instead of at the functions and acts of govern is particularly true of the many persons who write letters to the ets should get more substantial in grip on me that I can't seem to live or lacing lire.

And, all too often. regular existence. I have made National Capital. Letters that ment done in the name of the there's some well-meaning relative or friend who encourages us in our creases than those better paid. Those seeking the limelight will retort that if there is less tax paring there fancy price, is Metro which means that Johnson will get a fat slice of Metro money and so will 20th Century-Fox There was a bit of ceremony out on the Coast a few resolutions that I would never do It start out by questioning motives people.

again, but each time I or by accusing the recipients of isolationism. But no "outsider," however kindly, vegetables out of each 1000. Negligible amounts. The causes of the food breakdown go deeper than Washington has admitted. We are entitled to a clear, complete factual report as a guide to those who could still avoid some of the tribulations now on their way.

can be higher teachers salaries. The important question always Is there any cure for me or for the insincerity do not as a rule com is: What is the merit or dement weeks ago. Michael Romonoff, with thousands of others who must be afflicted in the same way. Miss N. mand replies but go into waste- of the criticism and not who can help us.

We, alone, can break the web which binds us. And we can only break it by facing facts as baskets. Officials in all branches Chicago. makes the criticism. A cure for day-dreaming? There of the Government find it hard to they are.

THE President is in the midst of several of his favorite sponsors as spectators, tore up 30 checks which had bounced. "The final ironic phase of my royally ironic career," he was heard to murmur. certainly is. But have you the cour JJjrtfrtt iHriHtatfam The Heroic Mood Sponsored by the Federal itfouncll oi the Churches of Christ In America carry on correspondence with per Stop thinking of yourself as a age to take it? That's another story. sons who do not at least credit rarely afflicted victim.

Stop with-! "Australia has abundance of beef, mutton, butter and cheese." U. P. Wonder what our returning ships use for ballast. ward off the inflation spiral. He Before you can be cured of day drawing from the normal program dreaming you must realize what day.

them with sincerity. This goes too, incidentally, for the many per of life. Stop "being different" and ROBERT TAPLINGER, formerly one of the ace motion picture Tuesday, April 6. Fear not, little has been advised that there are those in Congress who think he misinterpreted his powers under getting a kick out of it. Start being dreaming really is and what it does to you.

And, let me warn you, it sons who write to the press. flock. Read Luke publicists, is noy a Navy lieuten Debate is the healthiest instru isn't a pretty story. alike doing the normal' things which normal people do forcing yourself to accept normal chores "My concern," said the President ment yet devised to make democ Spank the kids. When they are about 20, they'll enjoy telling your friends about the awful beatings they used to get.

As we understand William Green, it is wrong to draft workers but all right to draft soldiers ant. Assigned to Admiral Woodward's department in Washington, of the United States, July 8, 1942, We day-dream because we want to escape real life and the easiest the law of last October. He cites the history to show that his advisers were as much entitled to racy work, but debate that is per and challenges. Above all "is not for rubber or gas. My con method of escape is by inventing young, impetuous Taplinger burst sonal loses its value.

The tone of Start being interested in some cern is to save my country." It a dream life which satisfies some would need, he knew, rubber and their interpretation as were his opponents. thing beside yourself. And you'll soon find yourself far too busy to all public discussion could be lifted by adherence to the doctrine so gas to save it and everything else into the admiral's office and exploded, with his customary enthu-' siasm, "Sir, I have a sensational idea!" "Lieutenant," cautioned thwarted part of our nature. Day-dreamers are always runaways at heart. Cowards, and pretty But the important advance is we have, but one sovereign end must "pick your scabs.

well expressed by the President subdue all lesser concerns to its that Mr. Roosevelt does not accuse his 'opponents of wrong mo his veto message the other day. heroic necessity. cheap cowards at that. Juvenile courts are filled with day-dreamers.

Reproduction Rights Reserved the admiral, dryly, "In the Navy we call it constructive." tives. He credits them with sin because soldiers don't pay his salary. But Is it smart to use all our force against Hitler when a fraction of it would pay bigger dividents in the Pacific? A. F. of L.

spokesman says, men lay off because their pay is too small. If their meat portion is too small, do they protest by eating only part of it Aunt Het By ROBERT QTJILLEN A wise commentator says that these 22 verses were meant to Most juvenile delinquency is rooted in day-dreaming. cerity a course that is bound to erase much of the bitterness that STATE OF MANY FLAGS Five flags (Indian, Confederate, hearten Jesus' "little flock" of fol About 16 pounds of candy are con There was the case of little Jo Ann bright and adorable. For eight Spanish, Mexican and United has surrounded this particular con sumed annually by the average person in the United States in normal years she had been the only baby States) have flown over the old Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, N. M.

troversy, in which members of the Democratic party have split with the White House. times. lowers for the dangers and difficulties they were sure to face. God's realm could be won only by heroes and the centuries since have confirmed his vision. The heroic mood takes command of details.

It does not loose itself in petty anxieties, it fits lesser in an otherwise childless family. Naturally she was spoiled. Then, on her 8th birthday, a baby sister IN HOLLYWOOD TPHERE is altogether too much In New Guinea, native couples dance with their noses locked bitterness and recrimination in appeared. The family were in a tumult of joy. For days flowers and presents appeared but not for Jo things into a vaster pattern and so Uncle Sam's Manual Just Off the Press Washington.

The ambition for banishes fear. Most of our fears are about little things and they are all Ann who constantly felt more neg tangled with our anxieties about lected. Everyone was too busy to notice. daily needs and accustomed comforts. Qifty VaarsJlgo They took it for granted that Jo Ann Trust in a power and wisdom beyond our own ends anxiety.

The greatness would adore her sister. It was weeks before they realized Jo Ann of the causes we serve dispels fear as the rising sun dispels the dark. had become moody and brooding a year before they saw that she was failing in school had withdrawn Prayer: Thou in Whose will are both our peace and our strength in into a world of her own. Today, at 18, Jo Ann is definitely "odd." She Marv S. Chrisman filed two suits, ary 27.

1892. Shortly afterward the couDie nurcnasea a nome ai faith and courage, forbid that in our anxieties for our little needs and comforts we should lose the vision of the causes which commands us in equity, one agamst ner nusbana, has no friends refuses to make any. Day-dreaming is her one and only Francis Leon Christmas, and another "My boys are facin' bullets, and I get.tirerj o' hearing others called patriots because they are doing their regular jobs and gettin' double pay." Publisher's Syndicate against his sister, M. Bertha Chris- nor doubt. Thy support in any ex interest.

Yet there Is nothing inherently By ERSKINE JOHNSON YWHEN it comes to motion pic-' ture censorship, public reaction is a hundredfold more potent than Will Hays himself. As originally written, the script of Charlotte Bronte's classic, "Jane Eyre," called for Orson Welles to throw a huge bone liberally covered with meat to his pet Great Dane dog. But since meat rationing and the reaction of audiences to such waste, the script has been re-written. Instead of a bone, the Great Dane receives a pat on the head. Judy Garland will don a mustache for a scene in her new film, "Girl Crazy." No, it's not because of the male shortage in movie-town.

She'll impersonate a certain state governor for one sequence in the picture. Belated but ironic note to the Mickey Rooney murder threat is that Mick and his pal, Sidney Miller, were working on a new song called "You're Just the Kid I'd Like to Kidnap" when they were man, a teacher in Harrisburg public tremity. In His Name Who forbids "Villa Decca," on North Front street, formerly the property of Rebecca Olewine. The legal proceedings had to do with the claim that the villa had been bought with the soprano's money, had been mortgaged in the name of Bertha Chrisman and that schools. Christmas, a native of this fear.

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wrong with Jo Ann. She's merely the 'victim of her own jealousy and envy. As are thousands like her. city, and Madame Marie Decca, lyric Copyright, 1943, by the Commission on Evangelism and Devotional Life I artist, had been married in Janu- with this set?" Schneider looked it over and then said, sourly: "There's only one thing wrong. This is a collective village.

You're capitalist. And you own it!" Change of Character For the first time in many moons, Ida Lupino will portray a girl you can't find reason to hate in "In Our Times." It will be Ida's first escape from neurotic roles in several years. Vernon Dent, one-time Keystone Cop and screen partner of Harry Lang-don, is seriously ill at a Lost Angeles Hospital. There's a very good reason why actors adopt screen names, Legal name of Rita Corday, Swiss actress making her screen debut in "The Falcon Strikes Back," is Jeanne Paule Teipo-Ite-Marma Croset. Jean Arthur may have been chosen "the least cooperative actress of the year" by the Hollywood Women's Press Club, but she can now replace that award with an Oscar she just received from a group of fans in Winston-Salem, N.

C. They voted her their "favorite comedienne of the year." The star just completed another comedy, "A Lady Takes a Chance," at RKO. Beauty specialist Gloria Bristol has Martha Raye on a special diet to regain the 20 pounds she lost on that overseas By PERCY J. CROSBY SKIPPY the property stood in Mme. Decca's husband's name, alone, and not jointly with hers, as had been the understanding.

It was stated that a bill of divorcement would shortly AVJ' RIGHT, COME OM, RELAX'. be forthcoming. REE-LAX! The old baseball grounds at the corner of Third street and Dauphin avenue. wa3 leased by President Ed ward K. Meyers, of the Harrisburg baseball team, for a period of three years.

Work on the enclosure and erection of bleachers was to be rushed. President Meyers an nounced that Catcher Pat Rollins, a member of the Harrisburg club in 1891, had been signed. Name Street City Robert Lee Keeling, formerly or t-oia oi tne mysterious cans. A former director of the Moscow Art Theater, Benno Schneider, is now working as technical adviser on Samuel Goldwyn's "The North Star," seeing to it that everything is authentic. First day on the picture's village set, Goldwyn took great pride in saying, "Well, I'll iet you can't find anything wrong Harrisburg, and Mrs.

Nannie K. Mitchell were married at Grace State (Mail to Washington, D. Methodist Church, Baltimore. Stewr art Keeling, brother of the acted as best man. entertainment tour.

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